Star Pilot | |
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Sire | Sickle |
Grandsire | Phalaris |
Dam | Floradora |
Damsire | Bull Dog |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1943 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Brown |
Breeder | Coldstream Stud |
Owner | Maine Chance Farm |
Trainer | Tom Smith Roy Waldron Jimmy Smith |
Record | 17:6-4-2 |
Earnings | $187,885 |
Major wins | |
Hopeful Stakes (1945) Belmont Futurity Stakes (1945) Pimlico Futurity (1945) Ardsley Handicap (1945) |
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Awards | |
American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1945) | |
Horse (Equus ferus caballus) | |
Last updated on October 4, 2007 |
Star Pilot (foaled 1943 in Kentucky) was an American thoroughbred stallion race horse. Sired by Joseph Widener's English stakes winner Sickle, he was out of the mare Floradora, whose French sire, Bull Dog, was one of the leading sires of stakes winners in the 1950s.
He was sold as a yearling to Elizabeth Arden of Maine Chance Farm for $26,000 and became the favorite, along with the filly Beaugay, of the two-year-olds in the stable.
Second in the Champagne Stakes and Grand Union Hotel Stakes, Star Pilot won the Pimlico Futurity, Hopeful Stakes, Belmont Futurity, and Ardsley Handicap, rounding out the year as the American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.
The following year, however, Star Pilot lost to stablemate, Knockdown, in his first race of the season and then placed an unfortunate second again to Knockdown in the Santa Anita Derby due to his rider having no whip. He didn't race again until he was five, when he ran unsuccessfully in three starts and was retired.
Star Pilot was retired to Maine Chance Farm. His best winner out of 72 foals was the 1949 filly Star Enfin.